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The votes are in. The dye has been cast. There’s no going back. Just before the holidays, Your Working Girl took note that Pathways to Education has appointed a new CEO. And the direction the Board of Directors intends to take could not be clearer. Incoming top executive, Vivian Prokop, most recently finished a 10-year […]
Crew list of Ships hit by U-boats Ralph Picco Merchant Navy. Canadian Born: 1894 Died: 1 November 1940 (46) Roster information listed for Ralph Picco Ship Type Rank / role Attacked on Boat Empire Bison Steam merchant Able Seaman 1 Nov 1940 (+) U-124 Personal information Son of Robert and Mary Jane Picco, of […]
Since Pathways to Education is advertising for a new CEO, Your Working Girl reckons it’s as good a time as any to look at the rapid trajectory of an organization that originated in the housing projects of Toronto’s Regent Park in 2001. After 12 years of incredible growth, she wanted to see what’s what, who’s […]
Your Working Girl is going on holiday (hurrah) and has been spending the better part of this week thinking about what music she’d like to take with her. And that set her off thinking about the magic of being able to even consider taking her music with her. If only for the iPod alone, Steve […]
The month of August is such a glorious month to toss around statistics. It’s hot, the days are long and the mind drifts. Just when it’s too humid to turn the page of a book, there’s always the click of a mouse. And from there, you can go anywhere. With all modesty (aside), Your Working […]
Your Working Girl has a soft spot for Americans. She does. With all due respect to stereotype, they can be a ‘hi, how are ya’ nation. She finds they wear their heart on their sleeves. They share their opinions with gusto. They engage in political debate with vigor. And so it was with Peter Buffett, […]
Your Working Girl wants to take a peek stateside this week to see how her sisters are fairing in the land of the free. Since the Republican gains in the mid-term elections in 2010, individual states have been cutting funding to women’s clinics, forcing women to watch ultrasounds of prior to having an abortion and […]
John Cook, editor of gawker.com has gone and done it again. And for that, Mr Cook is Your Working Girl’s leading nominee for two illustrious awards. Your Working Girl thinks her Gentle Readers remember the gentleman. He’s the fellow who broke the story about sketchy Toronto mayor, Rob Ford, smoking crack cocaine in a video. […]
Not 10 minutes ago, Your Working Girl received a phone call at home from one of Canada’s most well known polling companies. You hear this company quoted frequently, making confident pronouncements on the vox populi. The call was an automated survey on the issue of healthcare. And it tantalizingly held out the possibility of winning […]
It will not come as a surprise to anyone who sees and hears TV or radio that the island of Newfoundland and a chunk of the mainland, Labrador, is in a time zone of its own — Newfoundland Standard Time. The island is three and a half hours from Coordinated Universal Time (CTU) or what […]
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